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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
Charles Spurgeon
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Jean Paul
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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
August Strindberg
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A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut
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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Cicero
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
Akhenaten
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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Earl of Chesterfield
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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Walter Lippmann
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers
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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Woodrow Wilson
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Character is a victory, not a gift.
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
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Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
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Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
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Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden
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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
David Hume
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard
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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
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Character is victory organized.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Character is what you are in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn
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Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Rush Limbaugh
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Earl of Chesterfield
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Bernard Baruch
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
William Ellery Channing
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle
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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal
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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
George Eliot
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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
John Milton
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaten
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Human improvement is from within outward.
James Anthony Froude
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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
William James
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Plautus
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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
André Maurois
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If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.
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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
Woodrow Wilson
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus
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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Jean de La Bruyère
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Oscar Wilde
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James
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It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
Horace Mann
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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Stephen Covey
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Eppie Friedman
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare
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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Arthur Miller
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Felix Frankfurter
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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
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